Industry News

Propeller Aero has announced the acquisition of Spacesium, a specialist in advanced geospatial algorithms.

New South Wales’ surveying and spatial community gathered in Sydney on 1st November 2025 for the 27th Annual Excellence in Surveying & Spatial Information (EISSI) Awards, a prestigious celebration recognising innovation, technical excellence, and leadership across the profession.

The inaugural Western Australian Excellence in Surveying & Spatial Information (EISSI) Awards were celebrated in style on Friday, 17 October 2025, at Joondalup Resort, recognising excellence, innovation, and leadership across Western Australia’s surveying and spatial sciences profession.

Maptek's journey with laser survey technology began over 25 years ago. Initially focused on point cloud modelling, they quickly expanded to develop hardware offering a complete field-to-finish workflow for surveyors.

We are happy to announce that Angus Smith has been awarded the 2025 AIMS Scholarship at Curtin University.

Fourth year Surveying students at the University of Newcastle had the opportunity to hear from two Registered Mining Surveyors in late March 2025 as part of their Industrial measurement and mine surveying subject.

Maptek Forge is a quarterly newsletter that includes the latest success stories that highlight how Maptek decision support technologies are helping customers to change forever the way mining is done.

The NSW Government has recently released Launch Your Career (LyC) initiatives, which includes "Launch Your Career in Surveying and Spatial Information Services" to highlight the opportunities available within the surveying profession.

The University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) School of Surveying & Built Environment held an Honours Conference on October 23rd, 2024.

Maptek customers are increasingly turning to digital applications for easier and more accurate data collection, analysis and reporting.

The AIMS Surveying prizes for 2023 have been awarded to two students from the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ).

Maptek Forge is a quarterly newsletter that includes the latest success stories that highlight how Maptek decision support technologies are helping customers to change forever the way mining is done.

Maptek is excited to share the latest success stories that highlight how Maptek decision support technologies are helping customers to change forever the way mining is done.

SMIC News Issue 71, dated February 2023, including the 180th GM, a list of upcoming events, industry reports, surveying education reports, surveying ans SIS traineeeships, and the SMIC Training and Scholarship Program.

Maptek Forge is a quarterly newsletter that includes the latest success stories that highlight how Maptek decision support technologies are helping customers to change forever the way mining is done.

SMIC News Issue 70, dated December 2022, including the 179th GM, upcoming events, industry reports, surveying education reports, surveying ans SIS traineeeships, and the SMIC Training and Scholarship Program.

From Wed 14 December 2022, Survey Mark Status Report will be directed to contact SCIMS through a new, user-friendly Customer Hub. 

AIMS would like to congratulate Nam Huynh as the 2022 recipient of the AIMS Mine Surveying Prize, presented at the RMIT School of Geospatial Science 2022 Award Night and Gala Dinner.

SMIC News Issue 69, dated August 2022, including the 178th GM and 34th AGM, upcoming events, industry reports, surveying education reports, surveying ans SIS traineeeships, and the SMIC Training and Scholarship Program.

Thank you for those who attended the AIMS National Conference 2022. After a long break due to COVID we were pleased to be all together again up on the Gold Coast to celebrate the return of the Conference.